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You don’t often see companies practically giddy with glee in their press releases, but Sony certainly has something to smile about after announcing that 5.3 million PS4s have been sold worldwide since launch. This is far past Sony’s expectations for the...

Now that the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Microsoft Xbox One have launched in a large number of territories, attention turns to whether or not these systems will deliver the content necessary to create long-term success. As the Wii U from Nintendo has demonstrated,...

While Apple's iPhones compete with numerous smartphones running Google's Android, Samsung's Galaxies stand out as Apple's biggest competition. Samsung's phones have been generally well-received, but certain design decisions have had tech critics favoring...

There are two strings of smartphone launches this year that are obviously the most highly anticipated of 2014. The first comes from Apple, which is expected to launch an iPhone 6 with a larger display as well as a phablet-sized iPhone. Perhaps just as...

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Facebook may disappear in 3 years

Published on February 1 2014

A fascinating paper from Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering claims that Facebook may disappear - and is likely to lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. Using a mathematical model based on the spread of disease developed from...

SwiftKey on Thursday announced its first ever iOS application, SwiftKey Note, which is available to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free download from the App Store. The application,already seen in a couple of leaks in previous days, aims to bring...

As Samsung readies its Galaxy S5 to take on Apple's iPhone later this spring, one analyst believes the Korean company will be playing catch-up with an embedded fingerprint sensor and 32-bit processor. According to a research note obtained by AppleInsider,...

New Samsung patent applications discovered at the Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS) by GalaxyClub may reveal potential software features for future mobile devices including the upcoming Galaxy S5. Samsung is already rumored...

It’s not exactly a secret that Windows 8 hasn’t been a success by any measure. Microsoft and its PC vendor partners were hoping the refreshed Windows platform would help bolster slowing PC shipments. Instead, the new OS sped the PC market’s decent as...

The chance that smartphone sales would decrease after years in which the devices had taken the place of PCs among tens of millions of consumers worldwide was considered low. However, the process has already begun, making an already crowded sector, in...